Henry
Yes, I see that you are right about the preselected buttons in Pfind and Pbdict.. It does not work in 3.00 (it does in 2.17). Just a wild guess, but both gtk and gtkdialog has been upgraded.

Barry
- Plinej has upgraded Prename to 0.6
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?&t=16016
- stardust gtk-theme has been upgraded today
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=16203
- if you really intend to continue using PuppyMirror, I've upgraded the main file for gtk-stock icons and using gtkdialog3

My Puppy3 (named 2.17 in the /etc directory, by the way) won't dismount. I can't use my CD player while running Puppy. A great feature of previous versions was that everything went into RAM and left the CD free.

"in the pristine test -
boot up message: "attached SCSI removable disk SDB" Think this may have misidentified a USB memory, which was previously correctly identified."

I have edited that out. The memory chip is still shown correctly in 3beta. What is different is that I normally have a 512MB chip there, but had temporarily inserted a small 16MB Canon camera chip. For whatevever reason it was not properly recognized in Pmount, but no difference between 3beta and 2.17.1.

The 1280*800 resolution is OK for the first time (I mean without manually edit xorg.conf).
I could setup my wifi network even if I needed to reenter the setup three times, but let's say I did wrong manipulation

BTW, I have a problem with the flash plugin.
It seems mouse commands are not recognized. For example, I can't change volume or pause a video on youtube.
I have even tried to play with local swf file and there is no way to go further than the first splash screens.

My Puppy3 (named 2.17 in the /etc directory, by the way) won't dismount. I can't use my CD player while running Puppy. A great feature of previous versions was that everything went into RAM and left the CD free.

I don't understand your question. If you boot 3.00beta on a PC with little RAM, at shutdown you are asked if you want to copy the .sfs files from CD to the hard drive (same place as the pup_save) -- if you answer yes to this, then at next bootup your CD drive is frred up for other uses.

I don't understand what you mean about "named 2.17 in the /etc directory".

BTW, I have a problem with the flash plugin.
It seems mouse commands are not recognized. For example, I can't change volume or pause a video on youtube.
I have even tried to play with local swf file and there is no way to go further than the first splash screens.

I upgraded the Flash player. It's really awful, such a gross bloated thing, and the upgrade is almost 1MB bigger. I could go back to the earlier Flash9 version, ....or even go back to the Flash7 player, which is very small and worked well.

Tried an upgrade from 2.17 to 3.0B ( alias 2.21) on USB flash drive. Puppy thinks it is an upgrade on every subsequent reboot, and goes through the upgrade motions each time.
EZPUP installed and working after the upgrade. However, on a pristine install installing EZPUP has not effect.

My Puppy3 (named 2.17 in the /etc directory, by the way) won't dismount. I can't use my CD player while running Puppy. A great feature of previous versions was that everything went into RAM and left the CD free.

I don't understand your question. If you boot 3.00beta on a PC with little RAM, at shutdown you are asked if you want to copy the .sfs files from CD to the hard drive (same place as the pup_save) -- if you answer yes to this, then at next bootup your CD drive is frred up for other uses.

I don't understand what you mean about "named 2.17 in the /etc directory".

When I go to /etc/puppyversion it says, "2.17" for the version.
More significant is my inability to eject the cd after bootup.

I can confirm that 3.0 beta (either kernel) will not save to a multisession DVD+RW. I tried it with two brands of DVD+RW which I have used for multisession Puppy before. To make sure it wasn't the disk or the drive, I burned 2.17 onto one of the disks that had failed with 3.0 beta, and it saved sessions just fine. It's the one I'm using right now.

Attached is a screenshot of what happens when 3.0 beta is told to save to CD (in my case a DVD) at shutdown. There is no obvious way to back out of this window. I know, ctrl-alt-backspace should get to the command line, but when you do that can't you lose some stuff that you might have meant to save?

Anyway, whatever option I choose, nothing will convince Puppy to save to the DVD.

Hello All,
Looks like two items for me:
1) The boot sequence failure message (others noted), but does not appear on every computer I have tried. Comes up on a Pentium 2, a P3 and a P4. Did not on two P4's.

2) Video Adaptors: on two Diamond videocards, no luck with 2.2 or either 3.0 beta. These cards did work with 2.16/ 2.16.1 2.17 /2.17.1 . An ATI Rage card did great with all versions, including 3.00 BETA with 2.6.18.1 kernel .

Worse - the message at 1. , above, along with the 60s delay seems to appear randomly. First time I didn't see it on my test system, second time (using identical HW and no boot codes) it popped up. But didn't affect the ultimate outcome. Just makes the boot time much, much more protracted.

I am also seeing the crash using the 3.0 beta. I also tried the beta with the older kernel and saw crashes. It doesn't happen all the time. I copied the files to a USB stick that was booting 2.17.1 just fine and it crashed every time. Used the CD and it crashed 2 times and then booted. This is on a machine that ran 2.17.1. On a second machine it fails all the time.

Posted: Tue 18 Sep 2007, 13:41 Post_subject:
Games and 3.00alphaSub_title: Doom works on 2.17.1 but not 3.00 alpha

First.
Dell 900mhz. 256 meg ram 40gig and 20 gig hard drives ATI Rage XL 8meg video. (not 3D?)
I have installed and played doom and duke3D with 2.71.1 but no go with 3.00alpha. I get a X color error in terminal when I try to run it as well as No port 17 port 20 ok.
Is this due to the kernal change or am I missing something here.
This is with a full hard drive install.
Also, CUPS crashes when I install the CUPS dotpup to get a more complete list of printers to install my WINXP networked printers.

I am using a Zydas 1211b USB wireless dongle with WPA encryption. In version 2.17.1 this all worked perfectly, but in 3.00 beta the network wizard puts up a message saying WPA encryption is not possible with the Zydas adapter.